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Learning and Metaphors Exercise
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1-3-2008 11:25 AM
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If you are curious about building storytelling techniques into your studying <STRONG>I recommend taking on a short and simple 2-week challenge when you start hitting the books again:</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/what-storytellers-can-teach-you-about-how-to-learn-faster.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Once a day, every day, for the next two weeks, pick at least one idea, formula or concept from your studies.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/what-storytellers-can-teach-you-about-how-to-learn-faster.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Write out that idea on paper and break it down until you can see it in front of you.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/what-storytellers-can-teach-you-about-how-to-learn-faster.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Then time yourself to come up with as many possible metaphors for describing the idea or part of it in the next 3 minutes.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/what-storytellers-can-teach-you-about-how-to-learn-faster.html">When metaphors happen automatically, any ideas you encounter become easy to remember.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/657B6BFC-AE33-4B27-9AE3-540A53E8CFBF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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